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#11 CNJRoss

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Posted 09 January 2017 - 09:42 PM

Newsday, Melville, NY 1/7:
 

Engineer’s sleep, texts, diet to be scrutinized in LIRR crash

 

Federal investigators are scrutinizing a Long Island Rail Road engineer’s sleep pattern, whether he texted and what he may have consumed during the 72 hours before the locomotive he was operating derailed Wednesday in Brooklyn, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday.

 

Board spokesman Peter Knudson said experts in analyzing tracks, signals, mechanics and human performance and other specialists were examining as many factors as possible that may have led to the crash, which injured more than 100 people during the morning rush.

 

A federal source told Newsday this week that concerns about the 50-year-old engineer’s health suggest that sleep apnea may have been a factor and that the train made an “erratic” movement just before the crash. He has been on the job for about 17 years.

 

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Posted 13 January 2017 - 03:36 PM

New York Post, 1/11:
 

LIRR crash victim is suing for $15M

 

Another LIRR passenger who was injured in the Jan. 4 crash at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal is suing the railroad and the MTA for $15 million, citing reports that the engineer may have been a sleep apnea sufferer who nodded off at the controls.

 

Valley Stream resident Wanda Rich was heading into Brooklyn when the train rammed a bumping block at the end of the line, derailing several cars.

 

A pile of other passengers landed on top of Rich, 63, fracturing her ribs and damaging her nerves, according to a notice of claim filed Wednesday.

 

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Posted 18 January 2017 - 04:33 PM

WABC-TV, ABC-7 in New York, NY, 1/18/17:

 


Exclusive: LIRR warned of risks before Atlantic Terminal crash

 

Eyewitness News has obtained a safety advisory from the Federal Railroad Administration that was addressed to all of the nation's railroads, urging them to take specific steps to avoid a Hoboken-style crash.

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Posted 22 February 2017 - 03:22 PM

Related topic:  NTSB: Probes of LIRR, NJ Transit crashes may be combined



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Posted 22 September 2017 - 07:57 AM

NTSB news release:

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Dockets Opened for 2 Bumping Post Collision Investigations, Board Meeting Scheduled

 
9/21/2017

 

Dockets for the fatal, Sept. 29, 2016, NJ Transit commuter rail collision in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the Jan. 4, 2017, Long Island Rail Road collision at the Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, were opened to the public Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board as part of its ongoing investigations of the two accidents.

 

The agency is also preparing a Special Investigation Report focused on the findings from both the NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road accidents.  The Special Investigation Report will include recommendations based on those findings.

 

The commonalities in the accidents – both involving bumping post collisions at the end of a track in a terminal – warrant a singular discussion of the related safety issues. Combining each accident report with a Special Investigation Report allows each to be addressed in a single board meeting. The NTSB has scheduled that board meeting for Feb. 6, 2018, in the NTSB Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington, beginning 9:30 a.m. (EST).

 

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HOBOKEN, New Jersey (Oct. 1, 2016) — NJ Transit Pascack Valley Line train #1614 collided at the New Jersey Transit Hoboken Terminal Sept. 29, 2016.  A bumping post of an adjacent track is in the foreground.  (NTSB Photo by Chris O’Neil)

 

 

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BROOKLYN, New York (Jan. 4, 2017) — NTSB rail safety investigator Jim Southworth (right) and Sandy Rowlett, Deputy Director of the Office of Rail, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Investigations (left) conduct an initial survey of the damage to the Long Island Rail Road train involved in the bumping post collision in the Atlantic Terminal,  Brooklyn, New York. (NTSB Photo by Peter Knudson)

 
 

The public docket for these investigations contains only factual information collected by NTSB investigators, affording those with a need and desire for its contents the opportunity to review the information gathered about the accidents. The public docket does not provide analysis, findings, recommendations or probable cause determinations, and as such, no conclusions about how or why an accident occurred should be drawn from the information in the docket. The probable causes, findings and recommendations are discussed and voted upon at the board meeting and published in a final report.

 

A special investigation report is similar to an accident report in that it reports and analyzes facts, draws conclusions, and makes recommendations.  It differs from accident reports in that it usually involves more than one accident investigation and includes briefs of the accidents with the probable cause determination. 

 

The dockets for the NJ Transit commuter rail collision and the Long Island Rail Road collision are available online at https://go.usa.gov/xRuhv and https://go.usa.gov/xRuh6.

 

The board meeting is open to the public and will be webcast for those who cannot attend in person.  A link to the webcast will be available shortly before the start of the meeting at http://ntsb.capitolconnection.org/.​​​

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Posted 18 March 2018 - 01:48 PM

Daily News, New York, NY, 3/18/18:

 


 

Couple hurt in 2017 Brooklyn train crash sues LIRR for failing to prevent wreck

 

 

A husband and wife who were injured in a Brooklyn train crash last year are suing the Long Island Railroad for failing to prevent the wreck

 

 

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